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Web Search
Sometimes it's hard to find what you need...
Not any more... using Appalachian's web search appliance, you can quickly find the information you're looking for on our web sites.
- Adding a search box to your site
- Pages not included in Appalachian's web search
- How to exclude a page or site from Appalachian's web search
- FAQs
Adding a search box to your site
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Search appstate.edu
For a basic web search box add the following code to your web page:
<form method="get" action="http://gb1.appstate.edu/search">
<input type="text" name="q" id="q" class="txtbox" maxlength="255" value="" accesskey="S" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
<a href="http://search.appstate.edu/">More Options</a> | <a href="http://search.appstate.edu/help/">Search Tips</a>
<input type="hidden" name="entqr" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="ud" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="date:D:L:d1" />
<input type="hidden" name="output" value="xml_no_dtd" />
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="client" value="default_frontend" />
<input type="hidden" name="proxystylesheet" value="default_frontend" />
<input type="hidden" name="site" value="default_collection" />
</form>View sample page
Search Site
To search only one domain (ie webmaster.appstate.edu), add the following code to your web page:
<form method="get" action="http://gb1.appstate.edu/search">
<input type="text" name="q" id="q" class="txtbox" maxlength="255" value="" accesskey="S" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
<input type="hidden" name="entqr" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="ud" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="date:D:L:d1" />
<input type="hidden" name="output" value="xml_no_dtd" />
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="client" value="default_frontend" />
<input type="hidden" name="proxystylesheet" value="default_frontend" />
<input type="hidden" name="site" value="default_collection" />
<input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="replace.appstate.edu" />
</form>Be sure to change replace.appstate.edu with the name of your web site 3 lines above.
View sample page
Site Search or appstate.edu Search
To search either one domain (ie webmaster.appstate.edu) or all of Appalachian, add the following code to your web page:
<form method="get" action="http://gb1.appstate.edu/search">
<input type="text" name="q" id="q" class="txtbox" maxlength="255" value="" accesskey="S" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /><br />
<label title="Search this site">
<input name="sitesearch" type="radio" value="replace.appstate.edu" checked="checked" />
replace.appstate.edu</label>
<label title="Search appstate.edu ">
<input name="sitesearch" type="radio" value="" />
appstate.edu</label>
<input type="hidden" name="entqr" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="ud" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="sort" value="date:D:L:d1" />
<input type="hidden" name="output" value="xml_no_dtd" />
<input type="hidden" name="oe" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="client" value="default_frontend" />
<input type="hidden" name="proxystylesheet" value="default_frontend" />
<input type="hidden" name="site" value="default_collection" />
</form>Be sure to change replace.appstate.edu with the name of your web site in the lines above.
View sample page
Enhanced Web and People Search
It's not ready for public consumption... rest assured, we're working on it!
Pages not included in Appalachian's web search
- calendars
- forums and discussion boards
- blogs
- development servers
- password-protected sites
- pages blocked by robots.txt or meta tags
- pages removed at the request of their owners
Additionally, there may be pages or content excluded that are not listed above.
How to exclude a page or site from Appalachian's web search
To exclude individual pages:
Include the following meta tags in your code:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
between the <head> and </head> tags.
This will prevent crawlers (robots) from indexing the page, and from following any links from the page. If the page has already been indexed, it will be removed from the index the next time the search engine crawls the page.
To exclude your entire site:
If you maintain your own web server, you can remove your entire site from the index by including a robots.txt file at the root of your server. This file can be configured to remove you from the Appalachian search engine only, or from all search engines on the internet.
robots.txt
This is the standard method for excluding a web server or directory from an index. More information on robots.txt is available at http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html.
To remove your site from search engines and prevent all robots from crawling it in the future, place the following robots.txt file in your server root:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
FAQs
- Can I configure my search box to search multiple domains?
Not at this time. In the future, collections will be provided... - Can I customize the output of the search results to match my site?
Not at this time... All search results will have the default appearance of search .appstate.edu. - I can't find my page or site in the index!
Be sure your site is not blocking the search appliance through the use of meta tags, robots.txt or other means. In addition, read about content that is not indexed by the search appliance - the site may meet that criteria. Check to see if you can find your site in other search engines. Finally, there may be no incoming links for the search appliance to use to find your site.
